The paradox of American Unionism : why Americans like unions more than Canadians do but Join Much Less / Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz with Rafael Gomez and Ivan Katchanovski ; foreword by Thomas A. Kochan
Imprint
Ithaca : ILR Press, 2004
Descript
xii, 226 p
CONTENT
Paradoxes, anomalies, and hypotheses -- Union density in a cross-national context -- Evolution of trade unions in the United States and Canada: the emergence of the gap in union density -- Social democratic Canada versus free market United States? -- Attiudes and values: an inverted relationship -- Frustrated demand: more Americans want to join unions -- Contribution of states and provinces to the cross-border unionization gap -- Unions among professionals and other white-collar workers in Canada -- Estimates of nonunion employee representation: how different are the two countries? -- Legacy of differing cultural and political histories on unionization